Events

The Now, the first featured art presentation at Coolture Impact, the largest interactive public art platform on the windows of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square, offers a journey into magical worlds, intertwining reality and fantasy, opening doors to hidden places and participatory environments. The Now explores transitory spaces and unseen parallel realities, in a cinematic voyage to visually striking realms, live painting, and animated characters with evolving narratives. Visitors are invited to walk, move and unravel the different storylines.

The Now was created by filmmakers and video artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) through video art, animation, video mapping and interactivity. Interactivity is provided by designers Lorne Covington and Bill Saiff (NoirFlux) and immersive experience developer Karan Parikh.

About Coolture Impact

At the edge of new digital frontiers, Coolture Impact is an incubator that explores and exploits new technologies,

Organized by Denis Hollier and Zakir Paul

In Fall 2018, Fordham University Press will publish Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography, a translation of Christophe Bident’s groundbreaking life of the writer and critic, as well as Death Now, the final volume of of Blanchot’s Chronicles of Intellectual Life, written from 1941-1944. Finally, Minuit has recently published Jean-François Hamel's, Nous sommes tous la pègre (Les années 68 de Blanchot), an essay based on archival research into Blanchot’s involvement with the political tracts and events of May ’68, alongside Mascolo, Duras, Antelme, and many others. Spurred by these recent publications, this symposium focuses on Blanchot’s writing from the thirties to the sixties and beyond, offering an occasion to reconsider not only his often-contested political trajectory from the non-conformist extreme right to the radical left, but also the evolving concerns of his literary and critical works. 

9:40 a.m.  Introductory Remarks
Denis Hollier (NYU

Join us Friday, November 2nd from 6-8pm for a New Wave Cinema Workshop at The Yard Williamsburg! We’ll go behind the scenes and see in full color all the style, influences and methods of the radical artists and visionaries responsible for this seminal movement in French Cinema. 
$30 pp / $50 for 2
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The Travels of Babar

Presented by Source Music

A Magical hour for the whole family (6 years and +)

US Premiere (IN FRENCH) : November 2nd, 2018 at 7pm

Florence Gould Hall

Don't miss an acclaimed new production of American composer Raphael Mostel’s Travels of Babar, a multimedia composition based on the much-loved classic French book by Jean de Brunhoff.

This LIVE performance will feature the complete original version of the score. Ensemble conducted by Neal Goren. FIAF Board Member Leah Pisar will narrate all three shows.

Friday's performance will be followed by a book signing with the author’s son Laurent de Brunhoff.

FIAF Members save 10% with code FIAF10
Tickets start at $25 - TicketMaster